We can dream, folks. We can dream of a Daschle vs. Thune moment in 2010:
It's the highest stakes ever for a Nevada election, and former boxer Sen. Harry Reid is on the ropes early. Either Republican Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid in a general election, according to a recent poll of Nevada voters. The results suggest the Democratic Senate majority leader will have to punch hard and often in order to retain his position as the most accomplished politician in state history, in terms of job status. Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid 49 percent to 38 percent and Lowden over Reid 45 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll.
Reid's strategy, according to his spokesman, is to convince Nevadans that he can get them job creation and lower health care costs by 2010. Perhaps not the soundest strategy, with the way things are looking now. And, now for the understatement of the century, I give you Brad Coker, director of Mason-Dixon polling:
"It is going to be harder to turn them out for Harry Reid than it was for Barack Obama. I suspect some of that might be the charisma quotient."
You think?